OPAQUE WATERCOLOR

Iraq
13th Century
Source: Anny Gaul, "Recipes for a Field: Translating Middle Eastern Cookbooks and the Horizons of Food Studies", Gastronomica, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Summer 2019), pp. 87-95.
Recipe Details

Evidence

"INK, OPAQUE WATERCOLOR, AND GOLD ON PAPER, 31.4 CM X 22.9 CM."

Remarks

The pigment is used in the illustration 'Preparing Medicine from Honey' within an Arabic version of De Materia Medica of Dioscorides (p. 89).

Scientific Analysis
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
pigment
RegionIraq
Approx. Year1250
Source Information
AuthorAnny Gaul, "Recipes for a Field: Translating Middle Eastern Cookbooks and the Horizons of Food Studies", Gastronomica, Vol. 19, No. 2
CollectionUnknown
Language
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